racks n' sacks
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Tashi Lhunpo Monastery (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྷུན་པོ་), founded in 1447 by the 1st Dalai Lama, is a historic and culturally important monastery in Shigatse, the second-largest city in Tibet.
The monastery was sacked when the Gorkha Kingdom invaded Tibet and captured Shigatse in 1791 before a combined Tibetan and Chinese army drove them back as far as the outskirts of Kathmandu, when they were forced to agree to keep the peace in the future, pay tribute every five years, and return what they had looted from Tashi Lhunpo.
The monastery is the traditional seat of successive Panchen Lamas, the second highest ranking tulku lineage in the Gelug tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. The "Tashi" or Panchen Lama had temporal power over three small districts, though not over the town of Shigatse itself, which was administered by a dzongpön (prefect) appointed from Lhasa - Wikipedia
There'll be more beautiful shots elsewhere but I was drawn to these hessian sacks because of their folds and texture.
Mes excuses à mes amis non-geeks qui ignorent ce qu'est un stack overflow (d'où le jeu de mots).
Le stack overflow est un bogue informatique où, lors de l'écriture dans une pile d'informations, une ou plusieurs informations sont écrites hors de la pile, effaçant de fait des processus qui auraient dû rester intacts.
Quant au sack overflow... Disons que ce monsieur aurait bien eu besoin de quelques mains supplémentaires... :-))
c. 1580
Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588)
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
"In the hands of Veronese even this gloomy scene gains in solemnity by – initially – focusing on stark colours to emphasise the heroine’s worldly beauty. Only on closer inspection do we catch sight of Holofernes’ dark head and the sack that is ready to contain it, held by the servant. It is exactly this contrast between light and dark, between beauty and terror, which gives the picture its Mannerist charm." www.khm.at/en/objectdb/detail/390/?lv=detail
In this context, I highly recommend the oratorio 'Juditha triumphans' (RV 644) by Antonio Vivaldi. This is more than two hours of the most gripping, fantastic music (in fact, discovering Vivaldi's sacred vocal music is like discovering a continent). Here is the link to a particularly well done concert: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd_2D9Rg_Tk
As an appetiser, I recommend the aria 'Armatæ face et anguibus'. You can get there by clicking on 'SHOW MORE' under the video and then on '02:00:01'. Don't miss this art delight!
Now on UP's Lockhart Sub, the CN trio smokes it up through Rosanky. The three old GEs had their work cut out for them hauling the heavy grain loads along the hilly, windy ex-MKT main.
Rosanky, TX 8/14/2020
Old Flour Sack Happy Vale Farms flour used to arrive in cotton sacks, at some place they changed to paper bags or boxes, this is an old one found in North Carolina.
These two sad sacks were pouting just before we left home for a retirement party for a friend of ours. I took both these photos within minutes of each other. They can definitely tell when we are going to leave them home to guard the house.
This is a color shot but the sack is black and white? Sack from The Pioneer Woman Mercantile in Pawhuska Oklahoma.
These two sad sacks were pouting just before we left home for a retirement party for a friend of ours. I took both these photos within minutes of each other. They can definitely tell when we are going to leave them home to guard the house.
Saturday Self Challenge
Since Christmas is around the corner, I thought it would be nice to make this challenge about Christmas ornaments. The photo must be in colour (since that is part of the allure of this subject). Keep post processing to a minimum.
Being as most of 2020 has seen us in some sort of lockdown, much of our time has been spent walking the hills and moors of our local area. Over the year I’ve taken many photos of drystone walls, moorlands and reservoirs, so I decided our knitted Santa should be taken out of the comfort and warmth of his usual Christmas spot in the hearth by the fire, to experience some of the countryside that he wouldn’t normally see. The real Santa I suppose is always too busy to even see this scenery, so perhaps this little fella can tell him what this area really looks like when he comes down our chimney on Christmas Eve.
He had quite a day out, many shots were taken, some with him precariously balanced in tree branches over water, some in reeds at the waters edge, but this one turned out the best of them all. It’s a good job he’s knitted as it was a freezing cold, windy but sunny day. He’s now probably thankful to be back indoors near the fire.
A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY FRIENDS AT FLICKR
Many thanks for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
a dreadful bit of plasterwork from this tradesman.....won't be using him again!!
Jenny Brown's Point, Silverdale
Silhouetted against the wind-rippled Columbia River, fishermen break up their boredom with a game of hacky sack
My title’s a little misleading, I guess. It’s not that I haven’t seen this part of the sky before–it’s a common sight in the evenings of our Australian summer. The location that I shot at, on the southeastern outskirts of The Australian rural town of Tumut, was somewhere new for me. This particular scene with the Magellanic Clouds, the Coal Sack Nebula, and the central band of the Milky Way over the lonely Tumut Plains Road was an unfamiliar view.
I usually put a lot of effort into avoiding power lines in my shots, but in this case, I think the lonely pole and its delicate black strings across the starry sky add interest to the composition. I plan to revisit Tumut in 2022. With the offer of accommodation at the home of one of my cousins very much open, picking the right time to visit will probably come down to the weather and having an available weekend.
This photo is a single-frame image, shot with my Canon EOS R camera, a Canon 16 mm f/2.8 lens @ f/2.8, using an exposure time of 20 seconds @ ISO 6400.
Went to the National Rattlesnake Sacking Championship in Taylor, Texas, today. During a break in the event, I visited this boa constrictor for a photo op. :) Scroll down for two more photos.
Jaffa, in Hebrew Yafo (Hebrew: יָפוֹ, About this soundYāfō (help·info)) and in Arabic Yafa (Arabic: يَافَا) and also called Japho or Joppa, the southern and oldest part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, is an ancient port city in Israel. Jaffa is famous for its association with the biblical stories of Jonah, Solomon and Saint Peter as well as the mythological story of Andromeda and Perseus, and later for its oranges. Jaffa is mentioned in an Ancient Egyptian letter from 1440 BCE. The so-called story of the Taking of Joppa glorifies its conquest by Pharaoh Thutmose III, whose general, Djehuty hid Egyptian soldiers in sacks carried by pack animals and sent them camouflaged as tribute into the Canaanite city, where the soldiers emerged and conquered it. The New Testament account of Saint Peter bringing back to life the widow Dorcas (recorded in Acts of the Apostles, 9:36–42, takes place in Jaffa, then called in Greek Ἰόππη (Latinized as Joppa). Acts 10:10–23 relates that, while Peter was in Jaffa, he had a vision of a large sheet filled with "clean" and "unclean" animals being lowered from heaven, together with a message from the Holy Spirit telling him to accompany several messengers to Cornelius in Caesarea Maritima. Peter retells the story of his vision in Acts 11:4–17, explaining how he had come to preach Christianity to the gentiles. Sourse: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa
ok. had to make this for "show and tell" for my little person
more photos to come if I can wrestle this away from kids.. this is a late night shot.
woke up at midnight and remembered I *had* to get this finished... 5 hours later! just piecing it together and putting on the finishing decorative "seam" lines...
I think he'd be a good mate for Blythe ;o)
next time, I'll make it's mouth open with a tongue hanging out! ;o)
"You were deceived. And now, your republic shall fall..."
- Darth Malgus
Built for the moc off over at Gentlug.
Now we all get to wait and see how badly Jesse destroys me...yay?
''White Background'' for Looking Close...on Friday.
We went for a walk one evening and spotted this little piggy in the window of a charity shop about ten years ago. The next day my husband went back and purchased it for £1. All these years later we are now volunteers who help to man this very same shop.
Thank you to every one who visits, faves or comments on my picture.
happy weekend.